Du fait de
cuisine

Beginning and Table of
Contents

translated by Elizabeth
Cook

[Latin sentence, I think having to do with the
faultiness of memory and the advantages of writing things
down.]

Here begins the catalogue of things contained in
this little collection and book called Du fait de cuysine by
Master Chiquart, cook for our most dread lord, the duke of Savoy, in
the year of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ one thousand four
hundred and twenty, written by me, Jehan de Dudens, clerk, citizen of
the town of Annessier. And first the introduction or prologue in
which are contained the four principle causes which must be in all
good work, that is, efficient cause, material cause, formal cause,
and final cause; and the divine invocation, to uphold the saying of
the wise man who said, "There where Jesus Christ is not the
foundation, the building falls altogether.